HONOLULU, lire6-1571:176. The capital and commercial centre of the Hawaiian Islands, sit uated on the southern coast of the island of Oahu, in 21° 18' N. latitude and 157° 55' NV. longitude. 20S9 miles southwest of San Francisco (\lap: Hawaii. D 2). It is wholly a modern town, surrounded by luxuriant fruit and orna mental trees and foliage, and is famed for its beauty and the loveliness of the region. It has a very healthful and mild climate. especially favorable for pulmonary troubles. The streets are well laid out, and the houses, although un pretentious. are rendered picturesque by their gardens. Honolulu has twenty-five miles of macadam streets. The area of its public parks is 194 acres. Among the public buildings are the royal palace, completed in the Italian style in 1882. the Government several churches. a museum containing remains relating to the early history of the archipelago. a theatre. and a bank. There are 19 public schools and one high school. with a total attendance of 3345 pupils. Honolulu has several hospitals and a public library. There are manufactures of ma chinery. The town is equipped with a good water-supply, electric lighting and railway and telephone service. Its water-works plant. costing
$1,300,000, and its electrie-light plant are owned and operated by the Territorial Government. The city's municipal property had an assessed value in 1900 of about $2.500.000. The budget for that year balanced at $1.131,905. Over one-half of the expenditure was for construction and other capi tal outlay. There was spent on schools, $128,047. The harbor is well protected by coral reefs. The light from its lighthouse is visible eight leagues. Honolulu has regular steam coinnuinication with San Francisco (with which it is also connected by cable), Seattle, Vancouver, NOW Zealand, Sydney, and Japan. It forms the chief outlet for the trade of the entire archipelago. It is the scat of an Anglican and of a Catholic bishop. and of a num ber of European consular agents. as well as of the Government officials of the islands. As late as 1815 the present capital was a mere lit that year, at the suggestion of John Young. an Englishman. then Governor of Hawaii. it was fortified, and in 1S20 it became the capital of the archipelago. Population, in 1890. 22.907; in 1900. 39,306.